In the year 1737, French scientists publish the first study of correlating past weather conditions with an examination of tree rings (Feb 27), the oldest existing English language newspaper in the world, The News Letter, is founded in Belfast, Ireland (Sep 1), Benjamin Franklin creates the first city-paid force, the Philadelphia Police Force, the direct male line of the Medici family becomes extinct, Richmond, Virginia is founded - and all these fine people were born:
1737-0104 Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau* chemist/ politician/aeronaut - Dijon, Kingdom of France (1816/78)
1737-0119 Giuseppe Millico* soprano castrato/ composer/music teacher - Terlizzi, Italy (1802/65)
1737-0123 John Hancock* merchant/ politician/Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence - Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (1793/56)
1737-0209 Thomas Paine* British-American philosopher/activist/ revolutionary - Thetford, Norfolk, England (1809/72)
1737-0225 August Wilhelm Hupel* Baltic German linguist/publicist/estophile - Buttelstedt, Thuringia (1819/82)
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1737-0302 Henry Wynkoop* politician - Northampton Township, Province of Pennsylvania, British America (1816/79)
1737-0309 Josef Mysliveček* Czech composer - Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire (1781/43)
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1737-0314 Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus* Aromanian nobleman/physician - Gramos, Ottoman Empire (1828/91)
1737-0318 Juho Juhonpoika Jaakko-Kokko** (Lusa) father of Beata Ala-Kuhna - Lusa farm, Mieto, Kurikka, Sweden-Finland (1809/71)
1737-0320 Rama I* founder of the Rattanakosin Kingdom/the first King of Siam - Ayutthaya (1809/72)
1737-0323 Arthur St. Clair* Scottish-American soldier/politician - Thurso, Caithness, Scotland (1818/81)
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1737-04xx Jacob Lundh* Finnish glass manufacturer/entrepreneur - Viipuri, Russian Empire (1808/71)
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1737-0502 Berndt Johan Hastfer* colonel/ ironmaster/landowner - Taivassalo, Sweden-Finland (1809/c.72)
1737-0502 William Petty* Anglo-Irish statesman/PM/instrumental in securing peace with America - Dublin, Ireland (1805/68)
1737-0503 Berndt Johan Hastfer* Swedish nobleman/soldier - Taivassalo, Sweden-Finland (1809/72)
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1737-0507 Iosif Igelström* Swedish-Russian general - Gargždai, Governorate of Livonia (1823/85)
1737-0508 Edward Gibbon* historian/ writer (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)/MP - Putney, Surrey, England (1794/56)
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1737-0620 Tokugawa Ieharu* 徳川家治 shogun - Japan (1786/49)
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1737-0720 William Maclay* lawyer/ politician - New Garden Township, Pennsylvania, British North American colony (1804/66)
1737-0726 Robert Montgomery* colonel active in Finland - Stockholm, Sweden (1798/60)
1737-0727 Erik “Kirill” Laxmann* explorer/naturalist (fauna of Siberia)/ founder of a museum in Irkutsk - Nyslott, Sweden-Finland (1796/58)
1737-0729 Johan Adam Petersen* industrial entrepreneur - Dragsfjärd, Sweden-Finland (1797/60)
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1737-0805 Johann Friedrich Struensee* physician/philosopher/ statesman - Halle an der Saale, Kingdom of Prussia (1772/34)
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1737-0812 Antoine-Augustin Parmentier* pharmacist/agronomist/vocal promoter of the potato as a food source - Montdidier, Kingdom of France (1813/76)
1737-0814 Charles Hutton* mathematician/ surveyor - Newcastle upon Tyne, England (1823/85)
1737-0829 John Hunter* Royal Navy officer/Governor of New South Wales - Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland (1821/83)
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1737-0908 Gabriel Ahlman* landowner/ tax collector/ philanthropist - Perniö, Sweden-Finland (1799/62)
1737-0908 Evert Vilhelm Taube* nobleman/ soldier - Sweden (1799/61)
1737-0909 Luigi Galvani* physician/ scientist/discovered animal electricity - Bologna, Papal States (1798/61)
1737-0914 Michael Haydn* Austrian composer/brother of Joseph Haydn - Rohrau, Archduchy of Austria (1806/68)
1737-0915 Jacob Philipp Hackert* German landscape painter - Prenzlau, Margraviate of Brandenburg (1807/69)
1737-0915 Miklós Küzmics* Hungarian Slovene writer/translator - Dolnji Slaveči (1804/66)
1737-0919 Charles Carroll* planter/ politician/signer of the Declaration of Independence - Annapolis, Maryland, British America (1832/95)
1737-0930 Morten Thrane Brünnich* Danish zoologist/mineralogist - Copenhagen, Denmark-Norway (1827/90)
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1737-1005 Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov* Russian soldier/general admiral/statesman - Lyutkino, Russian Empire (1808/70)
1737-1007 Anders Schönberg the Younger* historian/state herald - Östervåla, Sweden (1811/73)
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1737-1108 Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux* navy officer/explorer/colonial administrator - Aix-en-Provence, Kingdom of France (1793/55)
1737-1115 Carl Arvid Hallenborg* lawyer/ landowner/active in Finland - Rydsgårds Manor, Kingdom of Sweden (1803/66)
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1737-1225 Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolay* German poet - Strasbourg, Kngdom of France (1820/82)
1737-1226 Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld* Austrian nobleman/military commander - Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg (in today’s Bavaria) (1815/77)
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